Munch and the anxious Nordic palette
Reproductions of Edvard Munch's best-known works, hand-painted in oil on canvas by university-trained artists: the swirling skies and blood-orange horizons, the hollowed faces, the long bridges and brooding shorelines of the Oslofjord. Each canvas is painted to order in the size and framing you choose, with brushwork and texture you can read up close. Free delivery Australia-wide, 21 to 28 days.
- 100% hand-painted oil on canvas
- Painted to order in your size, framed or stretched
- Free delivery Australia-wide, 21 to 28 days
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Rated 4.81/5 from 549 reviews
All 1 Edvard Munch oil paintings
Every print is made to order. Stretched ready to hang, or with a floating frame. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Why Munch
Munch built his pictures from thin, dragged paint and deliberately raw colour
Reproducing him well means keeping that rawness, not tidying it into something smooth and decorative.
Munch worked thinly, scraping and dragging paint so the weave of the canvas shows through, and he left passages deliberately unresolved. Prints flatten all of that. A hand-painted oil keeps the ridges, the bare patches, the places where one colour was pulled across another while still wet. Stand a metre away from a good Munch reproduction and you see decisions being made. That is the whole reason to own one rather than a poster.
Give Munch room. These are high-contrast pictures and they fight with busy wallpaper, gallery walls and anything patterned nearby — one canvas on a plain wall beats three crowded together. For a sofa, go 90 to 120cm wide and hang the centre about 145cm from the floor. The sky-heavy works throw orange and red into a room, so they suit cool grey, charcoal and raw timber better than warm beige, which muddies them.
How your painting is made
- Choose the size and finishSeven standard sizes from 60 × 50cm to 200 × 135cm. Stretched ready to hang, rolled, or one of our frames. The size guide on every painting shows it to scale.
- Painted to order, by handA university-trained artist paints your piece in oils on canvas, working from the original. Two to three weeks at the easel, then drying time.
- Stretched, framed, checkedGallery-wrapped or framed in our workshop, then photographed and checked before it leaves.
- Delivered free, Australia-wideMade to order in 21 to 28 days, then tracked to your door. Thirty-day money-back guarantee if it isn't what you hoped.
Questions people ask
Is this a print or a real painting?
A real painting. Every piece is hand-painted in oils on canvas by a professional artist. Nothing here is printed, and nothing is a print with paint dabbed on top.
How close is it to the original?
Very. Our artists work from high-resolution references of the original and match composition, colour and brushwork. Because it is painted by hand, no two are identical, which is rather the point.
What sizes can I order?
Seven standard sizes, from 60 × 50cm up to 200 × 135cm, and custom sizes on request. Open the size guide on any painting to see each size to scale next to a sofa.
Framed or unframed?
Your choice at checkout: stretched and ready to hang, rolled in a tube, or framed in floating, classic or ornate frames. A floating frame adds a few centimetres each side; an ornate frame adds roughly 8 to 12cm.
How long does it take?
21 to 28 days, because it is painted to order. Delivery is free and tracked anywhere in Australia.
What if I don't love it?
Thirty-day money-back guarantee. Tell us within thirty days of delivery and we will make it right or refund you.
Famous Artists · Expressionism
12 December 1863, Ådalsbruk — 23 January 1944, Oslo
Norwegian shorelines, white nights and the trembling modern soul — Munch painted feeling itself. Every painting below is 100% hand-painted in oils on canvas, from $299 with free delivery Australia-wide.
About Munch & our reproductions
The life
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian expressionist who lived a tumultuous life and poured it directly into his paintings. His early work was harshly rejected, but by the 1890s his critical reception had improved and crowds were flocking to his exhibitions. Living a nihilistic, bohemian existence of binge drinking and brawling, he transformed personal tragedy and psychological turmoil into symbolic art that expressed his innermost emotions.
By 1908 he stood on the brink of insanity and suffered hallucinations, but after a period of therapy he rebuilt his life financially and professionally. Munch spent his final two decades in relative isolation, painting prolifically at his estates outside Oslo, where he died in 1944.
Our reproductions
Every Munch reproduction at Direct Art Australia is 100% hand-painted in oils on artist canvas by professional artists — never a print. Our painters recreate his swirling, anxious strokes and acid colour with the same raw emotional charge that makes the originals so unforgettable. Delivery is free Australia-wide.
Can’t find the Munch work you’re after? We can hand-paint any of his works on request — just ask for a quote.